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[decay]

set up a new HP laptop for a client today.

it has a fingerprint reader in front of the keyboard. you can't really tell what it is.

it's the little horizontal thing below the number pad on the right.

[RAMd®d]

Sliding to unlock is perfectly fine.

And fingerprint accessibility is even perfectly finer.

I use a pin code and my phone locks one minute after idle. Every time I want to use it, I push, swipe, PIN then select.

With a fingerprint reader, I could have the security of PIN (far better, I hope) with the convenience of no PIN, no swipe.

HP laptops have had that fingerprint scanner/reader for some time. I've never used it, but I've wondered how accurate it is. I wish it had been set up because password entry was really tedious.

And it makes sense that using it would be optional, just as using a four digit password is optional, as is a more complex password.

If a swipe is fine for you, great. The last thing you need to do is worry about what's fine for anybody else.